Tascam HD P2 Portable Stereo Audio Recorder Owners Manual

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Operation
Power Control
Once power is connected to your HD-P2, turn it ON or 
OFF by momentarily pressing the spring-loaded power 
switch. The HD-P2 will power up immediately. If, for 
any reason, the HD-P2 does not respond to a power 
off attempt, a forced power-down is accomplished by 
holding the power switch engaged for seven seconds. 
Inserting and Removing Media
The Compact Flash media can be inserted into the 
media slot when the HD-P2 is powered ON or...

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Operation
Playing Audio
Press the PLAY key and audio at the current location 
on the timeline is played back. The HD-P2’s play-
back engine is based on a 24 hour day and will play 
audio from time 00:00:00.00 to 23:59:59.59. If time-
code mode is not enabled, the HD-P2 will stop when 
it reaches the end of day (during play or while fast 
forwarding). It also stops if you are rewinding and hit 
the beginning of the day. See the Timecode section for...

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Monitoring
The HD-P2 features a headset jack and phones adjust 
knob. In the Project Menu, Settings page there is an 
option for choosing the type of headset monitoring. 
The choices include Stereo, Mono Left, Mono Right, 
Mono Summed, and Follow Record Mode. The Mono 
Summed mode can be useful if you are doing mono 
recordings sometimes from the left and sometimes the 
right. Follow Record Mode sets the headphone moni-
toring mode to match the project’s...

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HD-P2 Screens and Menus
Menu Navigation
The HD-P2’s settings and utilities are accessed 
through a menu system. To activate the menu system, 
press the MENU key and the main menu is shown. To go 
back to the operational screen, press the MENU key at 
any time.
Main Menu
Project Menu – Used to access all of the settings and 
operations for the current project. Not accessible 
when media is not present.
Change/New Project – Used to create new projects or...

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HD-P2 Screens and Menus
Figure 14a - Project Settings Screen: Expanded View
Figures 14a and 14b are expanded views of all of the 
project settings and timecode sub-menus (timecode 
settings are explained in detail in the Timecode sec-
tion of this manual).The following are details about 
the Project Settings menu items:
Headset Monitoring – Stereo, Mono Left, Mono Right, 
Mono Summed, or Follow Record Mode (“Channels” 
field above). Monitoring via the...

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HD-P2 Screens and Menus
Figure 15 - File Edit ScreenFigure 16 - File Edit in Process
The SHUTTLE/DATA wheel moves the menu selection as 
it does in any other menu screen. If you wish to use 
the SHUTTLE/DATA wheel to move the timeline, press and 
hold the STOP key.
While auditioning the file you can change the In and 
Out points by pressing the LOCATE Ô/keys. The 
display updates to show the current selection of the 
file and the small In/Out time...

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HD-P2 Screens and Menus
Change/New Project
By default the HD-P2 automatically makes the first 
project whenever new media is used. To make addi-
tional projects, or switch between projects, use the 
Change/New Project menu from the Main menu.
In Figure 18 the menu shows the currently loaded 
project (Project 09) and any other projects on this 
Compact Flash card. If you select a non-loaded proj-
ect, like Project 02, the sub-menu provides the choices 
of...

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HD-P2 Screens and Menus
Set System Time
Figure 21 shows the current time stored in the real-
time clock chip of the HD-P2. A backup lithium bat-
tery powers this clock. The screen shows the status of 
this battery. 
Figure 21 - Set System Time Screen
Audio Clock Management
The HD-P2 supports a number of internal and external 
clocking options. Figure 23 shows the current sample 
rate along with the values of any external signals, and 
the measured deviance...

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HD-P2 Screens and Menus
Media Information 
Figure 25 - Media Information Screen
Media Information reports information on the type of 
CF card/media that is in use.
Figure 25 shows a 1024   MB CF card from SanDisk. 
It has been formatted as a FAT-16 storage device for 
optimal performance of this size of media.
Media Speed Check
This performs a quick write/read speed check on the 
inserted CF media.  The results are approximate and 
should be used only as a...

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Software Update
Figure 29 - Software Update Screen w/o UpdateFigure 30 - Software Update Screen w/Update
From time to time new software may be released for 
the HD-P2. To update the HD-P2 software you will 
copy the update file (e.g. UPDATE_1_1.BIN) to a CF 
card and insert it into the HD-P2. You can also copy 
the update file to the HD-P2 card while the system is 
docked to a host computer over FireWire.
Whenever the HD-P2 detects an update file on an...